Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Tenacity

The wind was blowing harder than I think it's ever blown around here. Harder, at least, than it's blown in the last eight years. You could hear it howling, and I even think you could feel the house shift and move. Considering that I live in a brick home, that's no small feat.

I stepped onto the back porch to see just how powerful the wind was and immediately went back in the house. Not because the wind forced me back in. Because I needed my camera.

On a branch completely bare of all leaves, there was one tenacious leaf that still clung. It whipped and flipped about, was blown to the limit of its stem.

I admired it. It didn't quit, didn't give up. It's possibilities of success were slim. It was only a matter of time before the wind won and snapped the leaf's fragile stem. But it continued to cling to that branch.

I continue to cling to dreams from my childhood. Sometimes I give those dreams a more realistic spin, but sometimes I have an all-out fantasy of achieving the childhood goal of becoming Nancy Drew or being a fashion designer in Paris. The latter is just fantasies, an attempt to daydream my way into a detox of a difficult day.

But there are other dreams that are feasible and attainable. I want to write. I've published and I want to publish more. I want to take pictures that move people.

I want to have the tenacity to actively pursue my dreams.

2 comments:

  1. A wonderful description of this last fight of fall. The image is lovely.

    OMG! I wanted to be Nancy Drew too! I had all of her books, except one that a schoolmate borrowed and never returned to me when I was 11...yes, I'm still bitter about it,lol.

    I love the line "daydream my way into a detox of a difficult day."

    Keep at it, I'm already looking forward to what you'll post next! :)

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  2. Wasn't Nancy Drew the best? I used to force my friends to play Nancy Drew on the playground; it's a wonder anyone wanted to play with bossy lil me!

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